Organizers:

Shatakshee Dhongde, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Chairs:

Shatakshee Dhongde, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Material Deprivation in Europe: Which Expenditures Are Curtailed First?"
Jacques Silber, Bar-Ilan University (Contact Author)
Joseph Deutsch, Bar-Ilan University
Anne-Catherine Guio, CEPS/INSTEAD
Marco Pomati, University of Bristol

"Analysis of Inequality across the Multi-dimensionally Poor and across Population Subgroups for Counting Approaches"
Suman Seth, University of Oxford (Contact Author)
Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford

"Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in the US"
Shatakshee Dhongde, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

"Comparing Multi-Dimensional and Monetary Poverty in Uganda"
Sebastian Levine, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (Contact Author)

"Measuring Deprivations in a Multi-Attribute Framework with Ordinal Data"
Yongsheng Xu, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Prasanta Pattanaik, University of California, Riverside
Lily Li, Georgia State University

Discussants:

Urmimala Sen, Georgia State University
Riha Vaidya, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Denvil Duncan, Indiana University
Michael Jetter, Universidad EAFIT

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Session Chairs:

Sophia Terrelonge, State University of New York at Binghamton

Papers:

"The Impact of Remittances on Education in Developing Countries"
Sophia Terrelonge, State University of New York at Binghamton (Contact Author)

"Estimating the Demand for Health in China"
Riha Vaidya, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)

"Are Hurricanes Failure Warnings? Evidence from Caribbean Secondary School Examinations"
Nekeisha Spencer, Binghamton University, State University of New York (Contact Author)
Solomon Polachek, State University of New York at Binghamton
Eric Strobl, Ecole Polytechnique

"Examining the Impacts of Different Anti-Malaria Campaigns: Are Some Organizations More Effective than Others?"
Stacey Gelsheimer, University of South Florida (Contact Author)

"Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence"
Sean Higgins, Tulane University
Nora Lustig, Tulane University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Stacey Gelsheimer, University of South Florida
John M. McAdams, Federal Trade Commission
Harry Tsang, University of North Dakota
Zachary Gochenour, George Mason University
Tin-Chun Lin, Indiana University Northwest

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